All the candidates for the regional elections in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté on Friday condemned the words of the head of the National Gathering list Julien Odoul ironic about the suicide of farmers, the latter believing that we are trying to "dirty" it while 'he is given the lead in the first round.

Republican boss Christian Jacob, who recently recalled his opposition to the RN, also denounced “abject” remarks.

"Your cynicism is infamous"

“Julien Odoul, what indignity.

How can a politician fall into such baseness and make such abject remarks?

Your cynicism is vile.

Each farmer's suicide is a personal tragedy, family and revealing of great distress, "tweeted the head of LR, himself a former farmer and former boss of the CNJA (Young Farmers).

"Is the rope French?" Asked the RN candidate with laughter, during a meeting of his party's group at the regional council in December 2019, Liberation reported on Friday, citing a recording.

He was responding to another outgoing RN regional advisor, Jacques Ricciardetti, who wondered if the farmer found hanged had "left a mark?

Did he pee on it? "

Questioned, Julien Odoul denounced a "commando operation" of Liberation since a survey gives him the lead in the first round of regional.

"Everything is out to dirty," he wrote in an SMS, transmitting several of his statements of support to farmers.

"Contempt"

From left to right, all the leaders in the region condemned his remarks.

"All the limits of indecency are exceeded by the sinister Odoul", reacted on Twitter Gilles Platret (LR), who concluded for the regional an agreement with Debout France - a former ally of Marine Le Pen in 2017 - , which generated tensions within his party.

For him, the head of the RN can "no longer support this individual" who "tramples on honor".

LREM candidate Denis Thuriot blasted the RN's “ignominy” on Facebook.

The outgoing region president Marie-Guite Dufay (PS) lambasted a “lack of respect” and the EELV candidate Stéphanie Modde the “contempt” of the RN “for the agricultural world”.

"It's to vomit"

"It is to vomit", judged the leader of the deputies LREM Christophe Castaner, recalling that every day on average a farmer puts an end to his days.

The president of the RN and candidate for the Elysee Marine Le Pen came last week to Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire) to support Julien Odoul, with whom she had visited a sheep farm run by an RN candidate, and discussed with several farmers.

While LR is torn apart over the advisability of making alliances with the presidential party LREM and some executives no longer hide their proximity to the RN, Christian Jacob recalled in Le Figaro on Thursday that his party had "nothing in common with Marine Le Pen".

Whatever the survey, the majority of farmers vote on the right.

In the 2017 presidential election, they voted in the first round first for François Fillon before Marine Le Pen, according to the Political and Parliamentary Review in January 2018.

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